TREPONEMATACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Treponemataceae mean? 

• TREPONEMATACEAE (noun)
  The noun TREPONEMATACEAE has 1 sense:

1. small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic

  Familiarity information: TREPONEMATACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREPONEMATACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Treponemataceae; Treponemataceae

Hypernyms ("Treponemataceae" is a kind of...):

bacteria family (a family of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "Treponemataceae"):

genus Treponema (type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals)

genus Borrelia (small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals)

genus Leptospira (very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals)

Holonyms ("Treponemataceae" is a member of...):

order Spirochaetales; Spirochaetales (higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms)